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STATE PAPERS. 



Treaty between his Majesty the 

 King, of France and Navarre and 

 his Miijisty the King of Portugal, 

 of Brazil , and JIgarva, concluded 

 at Pans, Augustus, 1817. 



ART. 1 His Most Faithful Ma- 

 jesty, animated with the de- 

 sire of executing tlie 107th Article 

 iif'the Act of the Congress of Vien- 

 na, binds l)inl^eU to deliver up to 

 his M(/St Ciuistiau Majesty, in the 

 space of three months or sooner, 

 if possible, Prei.ch Guiana, as far 

 as the I ixer Oyapur, ofvvliich the 

 mouth is situated heivveen the 4lh 

 and ,5th degrees of northern lati- 

 tude, and as fai- as the 322d de- 

 gree of longitude to the east of 

 the Isle de Fei- (Iron Island) by 

 the parallel of 2 deg. 24 min. of 

 northern latitude. 



2. Commissioners on either side 

 are to le immediately nominated 

 and despatched to fix definitively 

 the limits of French and Portu- 

 guese Guiana, conformably to the 

 precise ^ense of the 8th Article of 

 the 'J reaty of Utrecht, and tn the 

 stiptdations of the Act of the Con- 

 gress of Vienna : the abovi men- 

 tioned Conimis!-ioners must tei mi- 

 nate their labours at the expira- 

 tion of a year at latest, fiom the 

 date of their arrival at Guiana. If 

 at the expiration of this term of a 

 year the abovementioned respec- 

 tive Commissioners cannot agree. 



the two High Contracting Parties 

 will then proceed to other ar- 

 rangements, under the mediation 

 of Great liritain, and always con- 

 formably to the piecise sense of 

 the Sth Article of the Tr-aty of 

 Utrecht, concluded under the gua- 

 ranty of that power. 



3. The fortresses, magazines, 

 and all the military stores shall 

 be surrendei ed to his Mo^t (Chris- 

 tian Majesty, accoiding to the in- 

 ventory mentioned in the 5th Ar- 

 ticle of the Capitulation of French 

 Guiana in 1809. 



4. In consequence of the above- 

 mentioned articles, the necessaiy 

 orders for effecting the transmis- 

 sion of French Guiana (which 

 orders are at present in the pos- 

 session of the undei signed Pleni- 

 potentiary of his Most Faithful 

 Majesty) shall, immediately after 

 the signature of the present treaty, 

 be comnuuiicattd to the F>ench 

 government, with an official letter 

 of tiie same I'lenipotentiaiy, to 

 which a copy of the present treaty 

 shall he annexed J and which will 

 inform the Portugue.'^e Authorities 

 that they aie to deliver up in the 

 delay of thi ee days, the said ( olony 

 to the Comn.issioners charged by 

 his Most Catholic Maje.>-ty to take 

 possession of them as soon as they 

 shall have presented their instruc- 

 tions to that effect. 



5. The French government en- 

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